Call to Power - IME Activity
Java rewrite of Activision's classic games Call to Power 1 & 2
Status: Pre-Alpha
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Activity for Call to Power - IME
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Nigel Gay committed [641698] on CTP IME
Have less shallow water, more deep water
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Delete a bunch of old code from previous attempt at map generator
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Copy over "narrow shelf" and "isolated 1 tile of shelf" terrain tiles from CTP1 to CTP2... though interestingly I believe they were never used by either game due to how their map generator works
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CTP2 trench rule missing for NW shelf wall
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If the height map generates a deep water tile next to land, we have to override it and force it to be shallow water, or the terrain tiles can't draw it
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Code was incorrectly converting shallow water into continental shelf, should be converting deep water into continental shelf
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Get rid of constants for special scenario tiles
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Now I'm not using the CTP plasma generator, there's no need to use their skewed coordinate system either
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Plasma generator based on the CTP code isn't even used as I'm sharing the same one I wrote for MoM, so get rid of it
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NUMBER_OF_ROWS_FROM_MAP_EDGE_TO_AVOID is a carryover from MoM - in CTP there's no need to avoid putting land at the north/south poles
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Even setting the Ocean/Land slider to max should not give a map that is 100% land
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Uniform/Diverse slider works, but uniform is WAY too uniform, so tweak the minimum number of zones for the map generator up a bit
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Switch backgrounds according to which tab is chosen. Add the Next Turn button.
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A lot of headaches to add the 5 tabs onto the overland map button panel, as those tabs have some pretty unique UI behaviour
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Add the button panel over the bottom right corner of the overland map
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Add top menu bar onto the map screen
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Seperate the terrain tile "hats" into separate images
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Fix issues with left edge of the map missing leaving half a column of tiles blank on wrapping edges
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Allow scrolling around the map; fix problem where bulk of the code would ignore Doughnut Worlds as it would reference the MapSize data directly from the XML and not use these settings from the session description
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A lot of manual checking and correcting the terrain tile smoothing rules. Also verified the "trench" terrain type is not used in CTP2 so removed it completely.
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Draw tile transitions; draw both base tiles and smoothed tiles on top
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Include the transition directions for each tile in the XML
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Show overland map, currently only displaying base tiles
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Define terrain base image files
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Minor tweaks to rerunning DB conversion
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Implement terrain tile selection rules
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Start to implement terrain updates and tile smoothing
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Send the whole map to the client as a temporary; create space layer for CTP1 only
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Wire in map generator
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Only allow launching when enough players have joined and picked unique civs
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Ability to join multiplayer games
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Sort out a lot of the message exchange with changing nations and the launch button
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Allow nation to be changed after the player joins
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Start of "wait for players" screen
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Start game when all human players are joined; server to client messaging framework; GPK structure
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Fix various issues with building the assembly zip and trying to install and run the server+client from it
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Only enable OK button when valid values have been chosen for all mandatory fields on the new game form; send the request to create the game to the server
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Rethink how maxPlayers is going to work when cities rebel and form new nations
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Map sliders screen
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Choose difficulty and risks level
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Choose map size
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Map wrapping settings
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Choose number of human and AI opponents
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Select civ; build player description
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Start to use proper language strings in the XML DBs; add unit test to verify that the DBs match the XSD
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Allow choosing between CTP1 and CTP2; start of buildSessionDescription method to pull values from all the dialogs
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Include yes/no on the bloodlust/pollution labels
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Rules dialog
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Start of new game UI - correct layout and fonts, just most of the buttons don't do anything yet
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Player and session descriptions
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Framework to start up server; client can now get as far as creating an account or logging in
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Only enable OK button when all mandatory fields are filled in. Actually make connection attempt.
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Reproduce look and feel of a CTP2 list box
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Reproduce look and feel of CTP2 light on/light off buttons that act like checkboxes, and edit boxes
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Connect to server UI (so far empty, but gets the border generation working)
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Start of options screen
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Use new JDK 21 parent
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Use new release and snapshot versions of dependencies
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Use release version of parent and dependencies
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Use new parent snapshot, and switch from commons-logging to spring-jcl
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Update to latest parent and dependencies
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Text on buttons
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Create buttons of any width from set of 3 images
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Create shell of multiplayer client; now first UI screen opens
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Ton of plumbing with language master and spring XMLs to work towards being able to build first UI screen
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Transparency; break front page backgrounds and buttons out into their own folders
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Include ZFS archives and sprites into resource converter
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New build of map + XML editor
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Output terrain image file names into XML; display them in editor grid
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Start to parse tile selection rules into XML; add in the CTP2 special scenario terrain
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Start of CTP XML editor
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External script to run TileSetReader and build a jar of all the necessary resources
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Start to build a real project structure - add missing modules, classpaths, logging configs, and project assembly
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Start to make some sense of tile transformData
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Start to get all the isSomeTypeOfTerrain methods in one central place; place beaches and shelf
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Deskew coordinate system after height maps generated, so terrain is deskewed right off the bat and no more deskews are needed for later flood events
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Start to have a proper data model that records the height/wet/temperature maps ready for flood events later on; zone processing method simplifies code a lot
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Bash together a CTP-like map generator using the height map generator from MoM
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Finally found the river images
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Parse all CTP2 .SPR files
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First try at decoding .SPR file
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Use "wrapped diamond" coordinate system; make the map dumps use proper shaped diamond tiles that tesselate like the real ones so the output is easier to understand
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Output images for tile improvements
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No point in map directions and transition coords being permanently stored in the DB XML; change TileSetReader to read the DB XML instead of creating one that's in conflict from what's exported by BuildDatabase
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Parse pop.txt
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Parse citysize.txt (CTP2 only)
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Parse citystyle.txt and agecitystyle.txt (CTP2 only)
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Parse EndGameObjects.txt (CTP2 only)
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Parse feat.txt (CTP2 only)
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Parse orders.txt (CTP2) / order.txt (CTP1)
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Parse map.txt
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Parse goodsicon.txt
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Parse CTP1 endgame.txt
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Parse risks.txt
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Parse wonder.txt
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Parse civilisation.txt
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Parse gw.txt
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Parse pollution.txt
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Parse buildings.txt (CTP2) / improve.txt (CTP1)
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Try to parse terrain.txt, but the format is very different between CTP1 and CTP2
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